Chernoff

Chernoff may be either a Jewish surname, meaning "descendant of Charna"^[1] or a German-language transliteration of the Russian surname Chernov. Notable people with the surname include:

• Herman Chernoff (born 1923), American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist
• Maxine Chernoff (born 1952), American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor
• Mike Chernoff (disambiguation), multiple people
• Paul Chernoff (1942–2017), American mathematician